From: matzi AT kr DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at (Robert Matzinger) Subject: Re: Why can't I access my SCSI DAT drive with tar under NT? 18 Jul 1997 07:15:13 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970718123057.007494c8.cygnus.gnu-win32@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: matzi#mahler DOT kr DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at AT localhost X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Original-To: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <6a1VY5UppfB@mike.franken.de> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 20:09 17-07-97 +0200, you wrote: >Hi John, > >[...] >> \\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native no-mixed,text=binary >[...] >> no-mixed,text!=binary $ tar -tvf /dev/st0 >> tar: Cannot open /dev/st0: No such file or directory >> $ > >Same problem here - external SCSI DAT HP C1536A attached to a AHA2940 >BIOS 1.23. I already posted this message on the mailing list, however let me repeat my solution for Win95: I don't know a solution within the Cygnus routines. However I have a a 32-bit tar version that works with SCSI tapes. At least it works under Win95. You can run it in a DOS-box or on a (cygnus) bash-prompt as you like. You have to set the SCSI-ID of the tape as a DOS Variable in Win95. There should be a similar mechanism under WinNT. I frequently exchange data with a Sun running Solaris via the DAT-drive, there is no problem. Just very seldom on very large backups (>1.5GB) the "taring" sometimes becomes unstable. But I suppose this is rather a hardware (or SCSI-driver) problem on my particular machine. I know of two versions of this "Gnu Tar with ASPI patch" as it is commonly called. One I found at a strange Japanese ftp-space, which I never could access again after that. The other lies around somewhere at Uni Koeln. As they were so hard to find, I made them available at my own public ftp-space at ftp://ftp.kr.tuwien.ac.at/pub/matzinger/win95tar I hope I do not violate any copyright restrictions. There's a README in this directory, which you should read. However if there is a better solution (e.g. within the CyGnus routines) I would be very interested to learn about that. Hope this is of help. Happy taring. Triholareidulioe Robert Matzinger \|/ +------------------------------------+----------uuuu-Q Q-uuuu------------+ | D.I. Robert Matzinger | U | | Technische Universitaet Wien | phone : +43 1 58801/81 96 | | Inst. f. Informationssysteme | fax : +43 1 581 79 66 | | Abt. f. Wissensbasierte System | mailto:matzi AT kr DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at | | Treitlstr. 3, A-1040 Vienna,AUSTRIA| http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/~matzi | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".